The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-06
Weekly News Summary.

THE working-men of Rutland contemplate
starting a new daily paper, to be called The
Leader.
JONAS PUTNAM has been at work for the
Estey Organ Company at Brattleboro for
iftv-two years.
Miss ANNA GRANGER Dow, the we'll
known singer, will spend the coming sum
mer in Burlington.
C. w. Corr has been appointed post
master at East Richford and Frank Z. Nash
at New Haven Mills.
ED. G. CARDIGAN who was recently ap-
pointed customs officer at Newport, is quite
low with consumption
Mrs. CHARLES p. HARRIS. who was in
iured in the Rutland toboggan slide disas-
ter, remains in very weak condition
MAYOR WOODBURY. of Burlington is to fit
up athletic grounds on lot OF land leased
by him of the Central Vermont railroad.
A CHILD in Westied has died from "can-
crumoris "a disease closely resembling
diphtheria, but said not to be contagious.
Mrs. LUCINDA HADLEY, aged ffty-eight
years, postmistress at Chester, died recently
of pneumonia after only four days illness.
THE Middlebury College Alumni Associa-
ton of Boston and vicinity held its annual
meeting at Young's Hotel Thursday evening.
A sIX-YEAR-oLD boy in Island Pond found
a bottle containing beladonna, and took so
much of the poison that he fell into a stupor
and died
A RYEGATE man walked three miles on
snow-shoes to inform one of the selectmen
that his road was badly drifted and he must
come and shovel him out.
A DwELLING-HoUsE and barn belonging to
the estate of Moses Terrll at Cadysville
were destroyed by fire March 31st. Loss
$500; insured for about $500
Nv o.; 2,
Nelson in slate quarry at West Pawlet
was almost instantly killed Friday night by
a heavy stone falling on him.
w. A. CLARK, a native of Castleton, who
has been for some time clerk in the New
York post-offce, is under arrest for stealing
aS1O,0O0 registered letter package.
DURING the recent big storm forty men,
two big locomotives and snow-plow
worked twenty-six hours in getting from
st. Johnsbury to Greensboro Bend.
CAPTAIN r. j. CoFFEY of Windsor, who
has been chosen by the board of directors
superintendent of the Vermont Soldiers
Home at Bennington, took charge April 1st.
LARGE shipments of Canadian fish are
being made from East Alburgh. One day
last week no less than fourteen barrels were
shipped to the city markets.-lSUdnton
Courier.
The governor has appointed James Guy
d. d.
and recent graduate of Dartmouth, to set
out and establish true meridian lines in this
state, under the act of 1886
A YOUNG man who claimed to be an army
recruiting officer persuaded several young
men in Brandon to enlist and then sud
denly disappeared, leaving unpaid bills, it
is said He is considered an impostor.
THE snow blockade on the railroad north
of st. Adams last week Tuesday was almost
Int,tn IL
drifted between st. Johns and Montreal
that no train could be got through for forty
hours.
IT is probable that the foundation of the
Bennington battle monument will be laid
the coming summer, and that the laying of
the cornerstone will be celebrated on the
10th of August, the anniversary of the
battle.
A WALKING delegate of the knights OF
Labor has ordered out the employees of the
hosiery mill of George lockwood & Co., in
Bennington. Some departments where the
help is not controlled by the Knights OF
Labor are still running.
DIR. GEORGE NICHOLS and DR.. William b
Mayo of Northfeld and Hiram Atkins of
Montpelier have been appointed by the sig
nal service bureau as permanent meteoro-
logical committee with relation to the sig
nal station at Norwich University.
JOSEPH MARTIN, who lives on Pelot's
Point, North Hero, found in his cellar the
skeleton of man in fair state of preser
walton. He thinks it is the skeleton of an
Indian, as several relics, such as clubs, etc
have been found in that vicinity before.
THE following patents have been issued
to Vermonters: Scion e. Moore, assgnoi
to G.. w. Squire, Swanton, tub-fastener
Elton P. Kendall, assignor to c. P. Thwing
and p j. Murphy, Barre, try-square and
bevel James K. McNaughton, Manchester,
charcoal kiln.
The safe of A. G.. Whittemore of Burling
ton was robbed of $40 in money and $40 OOC
in mortgage notes and stock on Saturday
afternoon by woman named Eunict
Walch, who has been arrested and the
money recovered. 1t is expected that the
missing papers, which are not negotiable
will be found.
CHARLES r. HAYNES, aged sixteen years
and son of f. NJ. Haynes, a well-to-dC
farmer of Wilmington, took his fathers
horses, and, having received load of hut
ter and eggs of the merchants to carry as
freight, went to North Adams, twenty miles
distant, and instead of delivering the goods
as ordered, it is said sold them, took the
money and disappeared.
THE annual village election in Rutland
occurred last week. and the general ticke
was carried by the knights of Labor by
majority of seventy-three in a total vote o
l,lfo. MORE uHdn lOur persons
neglected to vote, but, thanks to the alder
manic district system, five of the eigh
trustees, who constitute the real govern
ment, were nominees of the citizens.
AT Cuttingsville, the other day, Station
Agent Foster of the Central Vermont roat
was standing on the platform of the rail
road station in front of the door, when h,
heard the report of rifle and in an instan
bullet pierced the door hardly two niche
from his head. Immediately another bulle
struck the building about three feet from
him. In few minutes two boys appeare,
on the scene and remarked that they wer
shooting at a mark. The boys We're sta
toned at point half a mile from the station
In General.
Ex-SECRETARY MANNING is falling rapidly
TEN inches of snow fell in Boston Sa tur
day.
A FIERCE blizzard ragged in Dakota Sal
urday.
TERRIBLE suffering from drouth exists il
Texas.
MosT, the anarchist, has issued defian
manifesto.
THE Grant monument fund now amount
TO S120,Si5.
THE New York senate has passed the high
license bill
In some places in Maine Sunday it wa
10 below zero.
THE New York sun has been boyc otte
by Knights of Labor.
Mr. BLAINE met with rousing receptio
at Eureka, Arkansas.
SIX thousand five hundred carpenters i